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Old 06-25-2008, 02:34 PM   #5
Clodfobble
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Originally Posted by glatt
I think the mismatch is a debacle. The officials who greenlighted the commercial project like this should be ashamed of themselves. There should be setbacks from her property, and the commercial building should be stepped away from her property so that it's only one or two stories where it adjoins her propery.
Part of the plan (after they realized she wouldn't sell) was to wait and acquire her land after she died. There was a quote in another article from the developer, saying specifically that they had left open holes in the construction for the appropriate beams to be inserted when the land was inevitably absorbed. The project manager who befriended her may or may not have had completely altruistic intentions... but the fact remains that now she has passed on with no living relatives, and only one close friend who was there with her until the end. The will hasn't been made public, but I bet I can guess who she left the land to.
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